Category Archives: Past events

16 September, OACPS House, Africa Room, Brussels A half-day workshop was organised by Reset, Culture Concepts and Avril Joffe, UNESCO Expert, Witwaterstrand University, South Africa as a part of a series of events in Berlin, Brussels and Antwerp in September 2022. This half-day symposium addresses the campaign for a cultural goal in the SDGs, less as aContinue reading “Culture Goal? A New Vision for Art and Cultural Policy”

14 September 2022, Art Center Kunstquartier Bethanien A half-day workshop was organised by Reset, Culture Concepts and Avril Joffe, UNESCO Expert, Witwaterstrand University, South Africa as is part of a series of events in Berlin, Brussels and Antwerp between the proposal partners. The world faces a convergence of crises – in a decade with enormousContinue reading “Re-Imagining Cultural Policy: A Workshop from a Global Perspective in Berlin”

Join us on Friday 5 August for an afternoon of panels and discussion at Nexus Arts. How can artists and labour movements work together?

Please join us for the launch of the CP3/Reset Working Paper,  ‘Art, Culture and the Foundational Economy’ on Friday 24 June at Flinders Uni, Victoria Square

In this seminar we brought together three leading experts from Europe, lead contributors to a recent EU sponsored report on Culture and the SDGs. Watch the recording here.

Stretton Institute at the University of Adelaide webinar on the future of Australian cultural policy.

Professor Justin O’Connor is currently in Europe, where he will be presenting the ideas around Reset to a wider audience.

Reset: A New Public Agenda for the Arts offered two days and nights of thinking and discussion about how the arts and cultural sector could work to break out of the current impasse through a radical reorganisation of cultural practice and policy.

The idea of the ‘creative city’ has its roots in the 1980s. In the face of accelerating de-industrialisation, the rise of grassroots social movements, alternative arts and new popular cultures held out the hope of a new kind of post-industrial city.

The global events of the last 18 months, from Covid to BLM to bushfires, have shattered many assumptions about everyday life. Yet the fundamental questions so awkwardly thrown onto the table by the pandemic run deeper than these events, and concern far greater long-running challenges framed around crises of climate, health and social justice.